POLY PATAO PRODUCTIONS (P3)

Ignacio created Poly Patao Productions in the late 90’s out of frustration with the lack of racial, gender, and queer visibility, diversity, and understanding within the alt sex/relationship, kink and sexual freedom “communities.” Their work included outreaching to other people of color (POC), queers, trans and gender variant folks and forming support networks to infiltrate predominantly white spaces. Additionally, they developed workshops, panels and retreats as educational tools for personal growth and political awareness. P3 intentionally and unapologetically created POC-only, as well as truly multi-racial, spaces.

The name Poly Patao Productions is a play on words. Poly, to publicly take on the identity of polyamorous, especially as a person of color, because it was seen as a white identity or “white thing.” Patao is a mix of two Spanish slang words-- Pata: gay woman, dyke, lesbian and Pato: gay man, faggot or homosexual man-- that was used to try and describe (at the time) their complex sexual and gender orientation.

For the past two decades, Poly Patao Productions (P3) has been dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, play parties and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming and gender variant folks of color and their white queer and trans allies.